Entourage 2008 conspires to make me busy!

As if it isn’t bad enough that you’re rushed off your feet with appointments, now I have Entourage 2008 creating them out of thin air! Ok, to be fair it’s getting a little help, in the shape of iCal, Google Calendar and Calgoo Connect. You see as I’ve mentioned before, my holy grail as far [...]

OS X 10.5.3 update

Every newsfeed I subscribe to seems to be carrying the story that Apple has released the 10.5.3 update for Mac OS X. So without further ado, here is my summary of how the 10.5.3 update went on my Mac Pro this evening… Uneventful. There… hope you enjoyed it 

Can Entourage come and play today…?

I don’t mind admitting it.  I’m disorganized.  I make plans, agree meetings, promise I’ll do things, and with the best will in the world I have every intention of doing them… and then I get distracted. So, back in the days when Windows Mobile first appeared on mobile phones, I bought myself a SmartPhone and [...]

Mac Music Management – MusicBox 1.11

It didn’t bode well from the start when I launched Music Box, asked it to scan a folder of 300 or so mp3 files and it promptly fell over, and I mean fell over. The application MusicBox quit unexpectedly After relaunching the application I found that It had in fact scanned the folder in question, [...]

The search for the perfect Mac music management apps

As I’ve hinted at in the past, if there’s one area where there seems to be a gap in the Mac line-up of applications it music collection management. Whether this is as a result of the omni-present iTunes or some other fact that escapes me, one thing is for sure – I need to find [...]

Switcher Software Summary

At the last count I had nearly FIFTY Windows applications that are pretty much essential for using my PC. Sounds a lot but it’s probably no more than average when you look at everything rather than just the major applications like PhotoShop. While I’ve seen sites that give examples of a few alternatives on the [...]

Just leave it will you…!

Every day, Windows manages to remind me why I bought a Mac. This latest fiasco occurred when building a new Windows XP machine. I reached the point where I’d installed Office 2007 and transferred my Outlook mail to this new machine. Unfortunately, every time I launched Outlook it complained that a certain Add-In dll from [...]

Recover from disaster – in minutes!

What’s the worst thing that could happen to your Mac Pro? Hard disk crash? A bit too much tinkering has rendered your system unstable or unusable? Well I’ve only been playing this Mac game for three or four months now and for a while there I thought – if anything terminal happens, I’m stumped. I [...]

FolderShare – another poor relation?

Having done more searching on the subject, it seems like there isn’t a solution to the encryption problem with the Mac version of FolderShare. It goes like this: If you want to use FolderShare to sync files between a Windows PC and a Mac, then you must turn off encryption, at both ends. Your files [...]

FolderShare dropped the ball

Perhaps like many other switchers, I haven’t yet let go of my Windows machines and probably won’t do for quite some time for specific things. The challenge is then, how to keep selected files in sync between the various machines? At present I have a very elaborate system using SyncBackSE (Windows), ChronoSync (OSX) and a [...]